The company, Eternal Reefs, has already consigned the
remains of more than 100 people into its environmentally friendly version of
Davy Jones’s Locker. It grew out of a firm that has been making artificial reefs
for the past decade, sinking more than 100,000 concrete “reef balls” (actually
more like hollow domes with large holes in their sides) in 1,500 different
places around the world.
Now, for around $3,200 (�2,000), it will mix human ashes
from cremations � or “cremains” as it likes to call them � into the concrete
for “ongoing reef development projects”. [Full
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